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2023-04-25 @ 15.03.18 ∈ In English

(From March)

Moths are more efficient pollinators than bees, shows new research
[The] researchers found that 83% of insect visits to bramble flowers were made during the day. While the moths made fewer visits during the shorter summer nights, notching up only 15% of the visits, they were able to pollinate the flowers more quickly.
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2023-04-24 @ 16.34.28 ∈ In English

What useful inventions will probably never be used in everyday life?
It is a real invention, patented in 1981.

It is the last possible resource for obtaining breathable air during a fire in hotels and homes when people cannot leave the room.
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2023-04-24 @ 16.24.28 ∈ In English

Calculators, codes, and hidden messages
Looking at a list of the chips used in Commodore calculators we see some letter and number combinations that are quite meaningful, if you know the stories.
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2023-04-21 @ 9.43.56 ∈ In English

Punctuation in literature of major languages is intriguingly mathematical
[The] language characterized by the lowest propensity to use punctuation is English, with Spanish not far behind; Slavic languages proved to be the most punctuation-dependent. […] German punctuation thus seems to combine the punctuation features of many languages, making it a kind of Esperanto punctuation.
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2023-04-20 @ 10.17.26 ∈ In English

(From 2020)

Rosemary Mosco (@rosemarymosco@wandering.shop)
This older comic is making the rounds again! Here’s a guide to bird photography.
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2023-04-19 @ 17.55.05 ∈ In English

Study shows bird feeding helps small birds fight infection
When the birds were exposed to a simulated infection, all the birds had essentially the same temperature during a fever. Instead of conserving energy to survive the winter, the birds without access to extra food were forced to use more energy in order to raise their body temperature high enough to battle infection.
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2023-04-17 @ 20.12.48 ∈ In English

Plastic action or distraction? As climate change bears down, calls to reduce plastic pollution are not wasted
[Those] provided with information about plastic pollution were more willing to engage with climate actions[…] But the approach didn't work for everyone.
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2023-04-14 @ 15.34.50 ∈ In English

Ukrainian girl’s artwork decorates ESA’s JUICE rocket headed for Jupiter
In 2021, ESA launched a competition for children to submit drawings that could end up on the rocket. After sifting through 2,600 entries sent by over 60 countries, eight-year-old Yaryna Zakaliuzhna from Ukraine’s Zhytomyr won the contest.
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2023-04-13 @ 18.18.19 ∈ In English

A New Approach to Computation Reimagines Artificial Intelligence | Quanta Magazine
The key is that each piece of information, such as the notion of a car, or its make, model or color, or all of it together, is represented as a single entity: a hyperdimensional vector.